MADRID -- Spanish actress Carmen Maura, the original Pedro Almodovar muse, will receive the Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award at the 61st San Sebastian International Film Festival, organizers announced Monday.

Maura, one of the most familiar faces from Spain on the international scene since the 1980s, will receive the award at the presentation of her latest work, Alex de la Iglesia's upcoming Witching and Bitching, which will screen out-of-competition as part of the festival's official section.

The film is the third time Maura has worked with de la Iglesia after her performances in the 2000 release Common Wealth, which won the actress the Silver Shell at the San Sebastian Film Festival, and 800 Bullets in 2002.

But Maura became an icon of Spain's most envelope-pushing films from the late 1970s and 1980s, such asFernando Colomo's What’s a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This, followed by three of Almodovar’s most emblematic films: Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón (Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom, 1980), Entre tinieblas (Dark Habits, 1983) and ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? (What Have I Done to Deserve This?, 1984).

But it was her roles in Almodovar's Matador (1986), La ley del deseo (Law of Desire, 1987), Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, 1988) and Volver (2005) that linked her image with the Oscar-winning director.

Among the numerous acknowledgements she has received throughout her career, Maura has won four Goya Awards, the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, the best actress award at the Venice Film Festival, a nomination for the Cesar for best actress, a Cesar Award for best supporting actress and two European Film Academy honors. She has also received the Film Academy Gold Medal, the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts and the Knight of Honor Medal of the Order of Arts and Letters of France.